Interesting Links for 29-12-2011

[andrewducker]

• An Armorer On Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits
  (tags: armour art fantasy women )
• Astrophysics With Cheese
  (tags: cheese physics funny )
• I was feeling a little tempted by War Horse. Until I read this.
  (tags: movies funny Steven_Spielberg )
• Why Batman Can’t Be Like Batman
  (tags: batman funny sad )

Comments

[dalglir]

I LOL'd at the batman link :D

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Wow. War Horse sounds like the worst Spielberg movie he's made since... the last wretched movie he made.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

It sounds like one of those made for TV children's film foundation type things that used to be on a lot when I was a kid.

I have high hopes for his Robopocalypse film. Mostly because it's called Robopocalypse. Also his biopic about Abe Lincoln, since it stars Daniel Day Lewis who rocks facial hair and a stern glower like no man alive.

I really like Jaws, 1941, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire of the Sun, Last Crusade, Schindler's List, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, Munich and War of the Worlds... but he really has made some piss-poor films too. He's managed to make two kinda crap Indiana Jones films, for a start! (if you think Temple of Doom is good, you're probably being nostalgic since, having watched it recently, after the really good opening scene it degenerates into Kate Capshaw screaming and a string of sometimes overt and sometimes implied racist jokes)

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Jaws was and still is an excellent movie, I agree. Likewise Raiders, Last Crusade, Schindlers, Minority Report.

I wasn't so keen on War of the Worlds though, it seemed to mostly be 2 hours of Tom Cruise running away from stuff blowing up behind him. :)

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Reviews I've seen of War Horse have basically said "it's like Saving Private Ryan, except in WW1 and with interspersed mawkish overdone sentimentality involving a horse." So unless you're someone who really likes to watch films with horses in them, the obvious thing to do would be to just watch Saving Private Ryan which is a (mostly) good war film that does not involve a horse and most of the sentimentality fits.

If, of course, you're the kind of person who can watch a human character die in a film without blinking but you cry when something bad happens to an animal, you should maybe stick to childrens films.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Parts of War Horse were shot near us, and the presence of Mr Spielberg made the local papers. A colleague and I were discussing it in work while flicking through said local paper in reception. We both came to the conclusion that what it really needed to make it a better film was a killer shark.


Incidentally, does the fact that it has an extremely famous director mean that everybody overlooks the very famous author whose book it is an adaptation of? It's not as if Spielberg wrote the book.

[andrewducker]

I'm going to go with "Because I'd never heard of the author or read any of their books." - but I'm entirely prepared to believe that many people _have_, and I've been sadly insulated from them.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That summary of War Horse was hilarious. I liked the look of it when I saw 5 seconds of the trailer, but when I saw the whole trailer I was immediately suspicious. It's like they took Black Beauty, but with extra charging machine guns. I didn't see any possible way a film about a horse in WWI could possibly end well...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Astrophysics With Cheese

ROFL. Although, while I appreciate their comparison of cheese-to-supernova, if they're counting Joules, I suspect that a cubic lightyear of matter collapsing into a black hole will release a non-negligible amount of energy (and by a non-negligible amount of energy I mean 'like a supernova', although I don't know if that's actually right).